AVP, Financial Accounting and Reporting

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Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) one of the worlds leading financial groups. Across the globe were 120000 colleagues striving to make a difference for every client organization and community we serve. We stand for our values building long-term relationships serving society and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

With a vision to be the worlds most trusted financial group its part of our culture to put people first listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation speed and agility. This means investing in talent technologies and tools that empower you to own your career.

Join MUFG where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

• Preparation of Technology suspense accounts. This includes liaising with account owners to ensure validity and accuracy of individual account transactions and timely capitalization of assets monitoring cost spend against budget accruing calculating withholding tax and markups invoicing and following up on cash remittance for projects carried out in London on behalf of EMEA offices.
• Production and review of daily reconciliation between Front and Back Office systems.
• Production and review of Daily Profit and Loss reports for Global Market Division.
• Investigation of reconciliation differences with respective areas of the bank and advising on root cause and corrective actions.
• Maintain Banks fixed assets and leased assets register and prepare all related Head Office reports. This includes review of applications for system development advising on investment vs expense treatment and monitoring the fixed assets coding in Oracle.
• Preparation of Banks pension accounting journals and reporting.
• Monthly balance sheet controls regarding nostro accounts
• Preparation of monthly closing journals ledger adjustments analysis and reconciliations. Review business reports to ensure accuracy in General Ledger including accruals processing to ensure reporting within the correct accounting period.
• Half yearly Variable Interest Entity reporting
• Preparation of Financial Accounting Reports in order to support the Bank in meeting its deadlines to its various stakeholders
• Quarterly and semi-annual Japanese GAAP and US GAAP reporting preparation and review ensuring complete accurate and timely preparation and submission of reports and following up with auditor queries.
• Adhoc projects

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Proficient with Excel/VBA Word and Access)
• Exposure to Derivatives related accounting
• Good exposure to accounting software packages.
• Good written and verbal skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Results driven with a strong sense of accountability
• A proactive motivated approach.
• The ability to operate with urgency and prioritize work accordingly
• Strong decision making skills the ability to demonstrate sound judgement
• A structured and logical approach to work
• Strong problem solving skills
• A creative and innovative approach to work
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
• A calm approach with the ability to perform well in a pressurized environment

We are open to considering flexible working requests in line with organisational requirements.

MUFG is committed to embracing diversity and building an inclusive culture where all employees are valued respected and their opinions count. We support the principles of equality diversity and inclusion in recruitment and employment and oppose all forms of discrimination on the grounds of age sex gender sexual orientation disability pregnancy and maternity race gender reassignment religion or belief and marriage or civil partnership.

We make our recruitment decisions in a non-discriminatory manner in accordance with our commitment to identifying the right skills for the right role and our obligations under the law.